Faculty Profile

Jay Conger, Ph.D.
Henry R. Kravis Research Chair in Leadership Studies

E-mail: jay.conger@cmc.edu
Phone: (909) 607-8110
Campus Address: Seaman Hall 226

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Current Course Schedule

Psych 141

M- 1:15 PM - 4:00 PM  Sea 106

Educational Background

B.A., Dartmouth College; M.B.A., University of Virginia; D.B.A., Harvard Business School

Research Interests

  • Executive leadership
  • Board governance
  • Charismatic leadership
  • Leading organizational change
  • Leadership development
  • Talent management and succession
  • Influence approaches and leadership
  • The language of leadership

Selected Research and Publications

  • Conger, J. A. and Riggio, R. (Eds.) (2006) , The Practice of Leadership. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • Fulmer, R. M. and Conger, J. A. (2004), Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage. New York: AMACOM. (Bestselling Book at the Society for Human Resource Management Annual Conference)
  • Pearce, C. and Conger, J. A. (Eds.) (2002), Shared Leadership: Reframing the How’s and Why’s of Leading Others. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers
  • Conger, J. A., Lawler, E.E., and Finegold, D. (2001), Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Conger, J. A. and Benjamin, B., (1999) Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop The Next Generation . San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  • Conger, J. A., Spreitzer, G., and Lawler, E. E. (Eds.) (1999) The Leader’s Change Handbook. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Conger, J. A. and Kanungo, R. N., (1998) Charismatic Leadership in Organizations
  • Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishers. (Winner of the 1999 Choice Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Contribution to the Field of Management.)
  • Conger, J. A., (1998) Winning’Em Over: A New Model for Management in the Age of Persuasion. New York: Simon & Schuster.
  • Conger, J.A. (Ed.), (1994) Spirit at Work. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  • Conger, J.A., (1992) Learning to Lead. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  • Conger, J.A., (1989) The Charismatic Leader. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
  • Conger, J.A. and Kanungo, R.N. (Eds.), (1988) Charismatic Leadership: The Elusive Factor in Organizational Effectiveness. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
  • Conger, J. A. (2006) “Best Practies in Boardroom Leadership.” In Conger, J. A. and Riggio, R. (Editors) The Practice of Leadership. Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.
  • Conger, J. A. and Fulmer, R. M. (2005) “Achieving the Potential of Succession Management” In Bolt, J. E. (Editor) The Future of Executive Development, San Francisco: Executive Development Associates
  • Conger, J. A. and Ready, D. A. (2004) “Rethinking Leadership Competencies.” Leader to Leader, Spring, no. 32.
  • Conger, J. A. and Nadler, D. (2004) “When CEOs Step to Fail”, MIT Sloan Management Journal, Spring, vol. 45, no. 3.
  • Conger, J.A. and Fulmer, R. (2003) “Developing Your Leadership Pipeline.” Harvard Business Review, December.
  • Ready, D. and Conger, J. A. (2003) “Why Leadership Development Efforts Fail”, Sloan Management Review.
  • Toegel, G. and Conger, J. A. (2003) “360-Degree Feedback: Time for Reinvention”, Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal
  • Conger, J. A. (2003) “Transforming Non-profit Boardrooms: Lessons from the World of Corporate Governance” in Riggio, R. and Orr, S. (Eds.), Improving Leadership in Non-Profit Organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
  • Conger, J.A. and Troeval, G. (2003) “Action Learning and Multi-rater Feedback: Pathways to Leadership Development?” in Murphy, S. and Riggio, R. (Eds.), The Future of Leadership Development. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
  • Finegold, D., Lawler, E. E., and Conger, J. A. (2002) “Building a Better Board’, Journal of Business Strategy.
  • Lawler, E. E., Finegold, D., Benson, G., and Conger, J. A. (2002) “Corporate Boards: Keys to Effectiveness”, Organizational Dynamics.
  • Lawler, E.E., Finegold, D., Benson, G., and Conger, J.A. (2002) “Adding Value in the Boardroom”, MIT Sloan Journal of Management.
  • Conger, J. A. and Lawler, E. E. (2001) “From Meek to Mighty: Reforming the Boardroom”, Strategy & Business, 25.
  • Finegold, D. L., Lawler, E. E., and Conger, J. A., (2001) “To Whom Are Boards Accountable?” The Corporate Board, vol. xxii, no. 129.
  • Conger, J. A. and Lawler, E. E. (2001) “Building a High Performing Board: How to Choose the Right Members”, Business Strategy Review, vol. 12, number 3.
  • Conger, J. A., Kanungo, R. N., & Menon, S. T. (2001) “Charismatic Leadership and Follower Effects”, Journal of Organizational Behavior, vol. 21.
  • Conger, J. A. & Xin, K. (2000) “Voices from the Field: Trends in Executive Education Among Global Corporations”, Journal of Management Education, vol. 24, no. 1.
  • Hunt, J.G. & Conger, J.A. (1999) “Charismatic and Transformational Leadership: Taking Stock of the Present and Future (Part II)”, Leadership Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3.
  • Hunt, J.G. & Conger, J.A. (1999) “From Where We Sit: An Assessment of Transformational and Charismatic Leadership Research”, Leadership Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 3.
  • Conger, J.A. & Hunt, J.G. (1999) “Charismatic and Transformational Leadership: Taking Stock of the Present and Future (Part I)”, Leadership Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2.
  • Conger, J. A. (1999) “Charismatic and Transformational Leadership in Organizations: An Insider’s Perspective on these Developing Streams of Research”, The Leadership Quarterly, vol. 10, no. 2.
  • Conger, J. A., (1998) “Education for Leaders: Current Practices, New Directions”, The Journal of Management Systems, 10, 2.
  • Conger, J. A., Finegold, D., & Lawler, E. E., (1998) “CEO Appraisals: Holding Corporate Leadership Accountable”, Organizational Dynamics, 27, 1.
  • Conger, J. A., Finegold, D., Lawler, E. E., (1998) “Evaluating Individual Directors”, Boards & Directors, 22, 2.
  • Conger, J. A., (1998) “Qualitative Research as the Cornerstone Methodology for Understanding Leadership”, Leadership Quarterly , 9, 1.
  • Conger, J. A, (1998) “The Necessary Art of Persuasion: The Language of Leadership is Misunderstood, Underutilized - and More Essential than Ever”. Harvard Business Review, May-June, 76, 3.

Selected Awards

  • 2005 European Research Award on Leadership and Corporate Governance, the Association of Executive Search Consultants, for the Sloan Management Journal article "When CEOs Step Up to Fail"
  • Business Week, selected as fifth among the ‘Top Ten Worldwide Management Gurus’.
  • Business Week, selected as “Best in Class” Management Professor for executive education worldwide in the speciality of leadership.
  • Financial Times, World’s Top Educators
  • Sloan Programme Lecturer of the Year, London Business School
  • General Excellence in Teaching, London Business School
  • Center for Creative Leadership’s H. Smith Richardson Fellowship Award
  • Commerce,(Canada) selected as one of the Ten Most Influential Individuals to the Business Community award